Bryan Ferry · Boys and Girls

Don’t Stop the Dance

Don’t Stop the Dance is in A minor at 127.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

127 BPM · Allegromedian of 152 analyses · 127.1–127.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
152people who ran the extractor
One beat
471.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.96dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.967Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.322Essentia's danceability, 0–3

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

What the numbers say

152 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 152 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 127.3 BPM one beat lasts 471.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.8 ms and a dotted eighth 353.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 254.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.96 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.967 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.

10 other recordings here are in A minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.

Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.

Keys that fit with A minor

Each of these differs from A minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.

Delay times at 127 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41885.30.53
Half note2942.71.06
Dotted quarter1.57071.41
Quarter note (one beat)1471.32.12
Quarter triplet0.667314.23.18
Dotted eighth0.75353.52.83
Eighth note0.5235.74.24
Eighth triplet0.333157.16.37
Dotted sixteenth0.375176.75.66
Sixteenth note0.25117.88.49
Sixteenth triplet0.16778.612.73
Thirty-second note0.12558.916.97

Half time 63.7 BPM · double time 254.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (471.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. AbracadabraSteve Miller BandA minor127BPM
  2. Star GuitarThe Chemical BrothersA minor127BPM
  3. GuajiraSantanaA minor127BPM
  4. Pictures of LilyThe WhoA minor127BPM
  5. And She WasTalking HeadsA minor127BPM
  6. The Other SideJason DeruloA minor128BPM
  7. Fn Pigdeadmau5A minor128BPM
  8. Drinking from the BottleCalvin Harris feat. Tinie TempahA minor128BPM
  9. Wrapped Around Your FingerThe PoliceA minor128BPM
  10. The Edge of GloryLady GagaA minor128BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 127 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 127 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMBryan Ferry

MusicBrainz collapses 29 recording ids into this one. Recording id f2d06394-2490-4109-87a9-f3a1df373875.